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“It’s not…” Aaron paused, giving a heavy sigh as he considered how to put what he wanted to say. It was rare he took much time to think about his comments before making them. “A friend has shared a lot of their life with me and when they found out I had powers and that I used to be a hero, they weren’t happy that I’d not trusted them with it I guess. He never forced me but I don’t know… I didn’t really think about it at the time because I don’t talk about it with anyone. I did what I always do; I just brushed it off when he’d made a comment back in the beginning and then it never really came up again until recently. But no, I don’t really want to talk about it with anyone, much as I trust him and now I think I might have just fucked up somehow.”
“Okay well let’s unpack that,” Alaska suggested after listening to him. “You’ve said things along the lines of ‘I guess’, ‘I don’t know’ and ‘I think’ a lot there. So you don’t know for certain if your actions made the other feel this way. And wanna know how you can know for certain? By talking to them. Talk to this friend of yours,” she advised. “It seems like so far you’ve just been filling in the blanks for him out of fear or nerves– but you’re just going to make things harder for yourself like that. The only way you’ll know where you two stand and what’s going on in his mind is if you ask him. Maybe you didn’t fuck up things like you think you did.”













